James Voogt

Department ChairAssociate Professor

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My academic training is in physical geography and boundary layer climatology and meteorology. My current research combines surface and boundary layer meteorology and climatology with remote sensing and GIS. It focuses on the importance of the surface.

Thermal remote sensing of urban areas and the use of remote sensors to estimate the surface temperature including the observation and modeling of anisotropic thermal emissions by rough surfaces.

Application of thermal remote sensing to the study of surface climates.

Modeling urban surface temperatures.

Urban micro- and meso-climatology with an emphasis upon processes occurring within the urban canopy layer (below building roof-top level) and the interaction between the urban built form and the climate of urban areas.

Parameterizations of urban effects for applied climatology related to building design and urban planning.

Krayenhoff, E.S. and J.A. Voogt, (2010) Impacts of urban albedo increase on local air temperature at daily through annual time scales: Model results and synthesis of previous work. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49: 1634-1648.